St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05

The Alpha Oil Company, a rival of the
Standard, has made an assignment in De-
troit. Its capital with that of it's branches
aggregated $600O,0OO. The company, it is
said, decided its property to T. G. Hall, of
| Chicago, inventor Of new processes of rein
ing upon which the company was founded
and Hail. in turn, asst gned to Mayor Thur
Der, of Marquette. The company had con-
structed pipe line to the Canadian oil fields
built large machine shops and started a bank.
ltspent 50 much money that latterly the
wages OF its employees were not paid.
The statue of Abraham Lincoln. erected in
Lincoln Park, Chicago, has been unveiled in
the presence ola large assemblage. Thomas
+. WithrOw one of the trustees of the Bates
fund, out of which the cost of the statue was
betrayed, formally presented the statue to
the park board, and w. c. Goudy responded
on behalf of the board. The statue was un-
velled by little abe" son of Robert Lin
coin and grandson of the late President.
The Grafton on the Life of Abraham Lin
coln' was delivered by Leonard SWEET.
The cornerstone of the first of the build
ings of Clark University, at Worcester,
Mass, has been laid
telegram from Ottawa, Canada. says it
IS believed there that the reported rupture
between Secretary Bayard and Attorney
General Garland over the Behring sea seiz-
ures, and the formers tacit admission that
the Canadian sealers We're wrongfully seized,
Will enable the Dominion government to OBJ
tam compensation for their owners without
difficulty.
The papers in the case of J. Harris Rogers
against Attorney General Garland ct al.
commonly known as the "Pan-electric
case have been returned to the clerks
office in Washington, by Charles Thomp-
son, whose office is with } Chandler. It
was asserted that the case could not go on
without the papers. The papers were ac-
companed by a letter from Mr.. Thompson,
IN which he said the papers were brought to
his office during Mr.. ChandIer's absence,
and that he placed them in drawer for safe
Keeping, and afterward forgot the incident
In New York William H. De Lancey, rep
resenting the Old stockholders of the Kansas
Pacific railroad, has filed in the district at
torney's office three bulky documents of
typewriter matter, which be desires shall
be submitted to the grand jury, with view
of indicting Jay Could and Russell Sage for
grand larceny. The papers aIege that
Messrs. Gould and Sage are guilty of that
crime, because they appropriated St 900 600
worth of stocks and bonds belonging to
Lawyer De Lancey's clients IN January,
1870. The certificates were of 81, 100 shares
OF the Denver Pacific railroad and telegraph
stock. If it Isl true that the alleged felontous
appropriations occurred in 1870 criminal
proceedings are excluded by the statute of
limitations.
T. G. Hall, of the Alpha Oil Company, has
brought suit against a newspaper III Sarnica,
Ontario, for $4,000 damages for ali alleged
hbeious article regarding Halls process of
refining oil. MIR. Hall said that while be
was temporarily embarrassed. there had
been no assignment made and that the COM
pany was entirely solvent.
An oven used for japanning in the works of
]. II. Sessions & Sons at Waterbury. Conn,
exploded recently, setting the building on
fire. When the fire was extinguished the
dead bodies of Willie Young aged fourteen
years, Burt Cleveland aged fifteen and John
Shane, aged thirty one, were taken from the
ruins. Six or seven others were injured, two
severely.
Sarah kobnweiler, aged eight years. was
wounded in the cellar of her
fathers house in Louisville, Ky. She picked
up what appeared to bea small cannon ball
and threw it OIL the floor. 1t proved to be
dynamite bomb The house was formerly
by some Poles and Hungarlans,
who, it is thought, went from there to
Chicago.
Malignant diphtheria is raging 10 Warren
county, n. j., and some terrible stories of It's |
ravages are told. Mrs. John Cole of Hack
gave birth to a child. In a day or |
TWO the mother was attacked with diphthe-
ia and died. The babe died on the same
lay, and, before the funeral arrangements
we're completed, another child of four years
If age succumbed to the disease. day or
wo later Miss Clara Stephens, sister of
Mrs. Cole, was attacked with the maIady
md died. Miss Stephens brother and
,oarder in the house are now sick of the
lisease.
Secretary Fairchild has instructed the
collector of customs at New YORK to arrange
or a refund of duties exacted on imported
match boxes in all cases where the legal re-
uirements as to protest and appeal have
'een complied with. Match boxes are now
Omitted free of duty.
The Treasury Department has decided that
harcoal iron bar ends. from one to four
nches long, which are cut OF from Swedish
ar iron in the process of manufacturing the
ars, are dutiable at the rate of tbfeetenths
one cent per pound under the PROVISIONS
or scrap iron, etc.
The commissioner of patents has rendered
decision settling in the negative the long
isputed question, "Can an applicant em-
race in one and the same application for
,tters patent more than one distinct aud
,parate invention ?" The commissioner
ays the fact that the courts have held valid
atents covering multiplicity of inventions
'rms no reason why the patent office should
ontinue to issue patents comprehendlng dis
net and separate inventions.
George De Burger, driver of streetcar in
Ind, was SO badly beaten by